Why Mother Natalia Disliked St. Therese of Lisieux

[@wayofthestars]

I find it wild that Therese’s gentleness often seems to be perceived as her whole personality, instead of one aspect of a radical interior life. St. Therese was fierce - it is no small thing that she idolized Joan of Arc… I highly recommend reading the poems and plays she wrote about her.

[@Patricia-lc8cf]

@@wayofthestars Therese was a warrior. Spiritual genius. Radical in her trust in God’s Love and Mercy. Doctor of Merciful Love.

[@AK5of8]

When I was introduced to St. Therese, I was told, “She’s your worst enemy and your best friend. Enjoy!”

[@madgiemadgie9128]

😂😂

[@natalia5260]

Why worst enemy?

[@AK5of8]

@ The things she complained about were so ordinary: getting splashed with water, her hair getting brushed too vigorously, someone annoying her with humming. At first, she seems spoiled. And these can NOT be the sacrifices that actually sanctify you. She was, you know, spoiled! Like me and my sisters. But eventually it dawned on us: if she could do it, we can do it. Sainthood is not out of our reach even though our lives are so comfortable. We live everyday with a ton of irritations that should be offered up. I love her Little Way!

[@CorImmaculatum]

I was the most UNHOLY person, throughout my life. When Christ called me to the Church, St. Padre Pio spoke to me IMMEDIATELY! His staunch, no nonsense holiness resonated with me. Padre Pio, pray for us!

[@outoforbit00]

Funny you should mention that, Padro Pio sometimes scares me. I think he is the saint to put the fear of God in people. Tbh I think he's a man's man Saint. I'm a woman btw.

[@Stmichaelsaves]

This is the most inflammatory title Josiah has ever written

[@fr.andygutierrez5356]

The best kind of Clickbait… It definitely worked on me!

[@blessingsfromthecrone3261]

St. Therese of Lisieux is also my Confirmation Saint. She was recommended to me by Sister Mary Helen Grace from my Church, and I’ve never looked back. Grateful to Sister for helping to guide me in my journey of faith when I was young. Blessed Be. ❤

[@dominicschulte6073]

Don’t like St Terese? Those are fighting words!

[@nycetume2605]

@@dominicschulte6073 haha ya I know what u mean..

[@ChristRisenLord]

I am a new re-convert and I can't wrap my mind around people not liking saints when we have never met them. We are going off of sometimes first-hand but often second and third hand accounts and making judgments on them. It just really confuses me. If anyone could clear it up for me I would really appreciate it. Of course we may not resonate with every saint the same, but to outright dislike them? It sounds crazy to me. My mind instantly thinks that it will be an awkward conversation at the least if God willing we make it to heaven and have spoken bad about a saint.

[@mimiplay20]

You can have her. You can share her with less people.

[@alisterrebelo9013]

As my patron Saint, these indeed are fighting words.

[@tinag7506]

I know ryt..jk

[@arose4u2]

You don’t chose St. Therese, she chooses you.

[@srsusansummers3070]

@@arose4u2 agree

[@alisterrebelo9013]

I was praying to God to help me find my patron Saint for some weeks. I noticed that my feed would suddenly be filled with videos about people talking about St Therese. Didn't think too much of it. One Sunday I went to Mass despite having a cold and blocked nose. The Church has relics of a number of saints (St Paul, St. JP2, St. Anthony of Padua, St Mary MacKillop) including St Therese. After Mass, when the Church was empty, I prayed in front of the relic St. JP2 for healing to clear my blocked nose. Nothing happened. I walked over to the relic of St Therese, and as soon as I read the plaque and realised it was her, my nose INSTANTLY cleared and I got the smell of flowers, I looked around, there are no flowers anywhere around me. I knew immediately that St Therese had chosen me. God is GOOD!

[@marinattysegura5844]

Agree

[@Bork98]

I hadn't really thought much about St Therese, but over a couple week period last month, it became very clear that she had chosen me.

[@eyrebear1199]

I 100% agree. I was resistant to her at the beginning but she made it very clear that she had chosen me.

[@jdub3999]

Thank you for smiling at me St Therese, your little way has pierced my heart.

[@SurrenderNovena]

"Our patron saints are those opposite from us" A Franciscan postulant told me this a couple of months ago. At first I thought he was wrong but the more I reflected on it, I realized he was right, at least in my case. This seems to be the case with Shayne as well. My saint is St. Teresa of Ávila:)

[@xavi9433]

That is correct. My patron saint Zelie is diligent, beautiful, and a mother of five children. However, I am exactly the opposite.

[@chasingthesky]

As a child I chose St Rose of Lima as my confirmation saint because I liked the name. Now as a devout adult I feel I couldn’t have less in common with her haha! Certainly do not need to go to lengths to keep my beauty at bay!! 😂

[@ernesthader1109]

How will you who your saint is? Seriously, I didn't know you had confirmation saints eventhough I did had my confirmation when I was younger.

[@SurrenderNovena]

@@ernesthader1109 What country do you live in? Some countries don't have the tradition of the confirmandi selecting a special saint to be their patron. In the USA we do, in Italy they don't 🤷🏻‍♀

[@ernesthader1109]

@SurrenderNovena , I'm from the Philippines. Most of our Catholic tradition came from Spain they colonized us more than 300 years.

[@Theresa-and-Eric-love-Jesus]

This was so cool to listen to. My name is Theresa. I’m currently reading the story of a soul. I have gotten many roses also from St Therese. I’m 53. When I was 18 I did a novena to her and she answered. I did a novena to have a son. I have one son and 3 daughters. I did a novena that was answered but differently than I wanted but turned out better than I expected.Recently my daughter who is 30 had a mini stroke. I have been praying to God for her and asking St Therese also to pray for her and intercede for me. There were many miracles during that time. But, I, as I’m reading the story of a soul, many of times also think like , hmmmm I don’t really like the way she did that, or maybe it’s how they portray her, but like sister Natalia when st Therese speaks about the deep spiritual things, it’s just beautiful. I bought my 5 year old granddaughter(daughter of my daughter who had the mini stroke) a st Therese doll for Christmas. I been trying to tell them “little ways” of St Therese. But I thank Jesus for giving us the saints as little flowers to look at. Beautiful and gives the scent of heaven. I’m really glad to know that sister Natalia thinks the way I do about st Therese to a degree.

St Therese of Lisieux the Little Flower once said; she was like a little flower looking up to the saints giants in the faith and she replied because she was a little flower our Lord would pick her up in his arms to lift her above the great saints. She is known as the greatest saint in modern times a Doctor of the Church.

[@A-Roman24]

I feel you... Love st francis Don't like the person that most people think saint francis was

[@madelizabethjade]

Ooh. Can you go more in depth into this?

[@AquinasBased]

@@madelizabethjade Pope Francis is depicted as a liberal heretic. But he's actually pretty orthodox on faith and morals.

[@Charlotte_Martel]

I can see that. The world makes him out to be a proto hippie who despised the Church hierarchy.

[@michelleishappy4036]

Even if someone doesn't like St. Thérèse🌸, she will work on their hearts and they will become very devoted. 😊

[@petrichor5294]

This is why I miss good old-fashioned T.V. Everything on KZbin is just clickbait.

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

yeah I read St louis de montfort's little rosary book at a really vulnerable time in my life where I was dealing with a new schizophrenia diagnosis, just having gotten out of the hospital for a psychotic break, and I was hallucinating a lot of voices, and it was affecting my prayer life because I thought the voices were from God but then they would get really messed up and evil. So I was trying to turn to God and prayer during the most chaotic and confusing experience of my life, and it was blowing up in my face. So I ended up having to reject every single voice I thought was God, still believe He's there and He loves me, and just trust that God would be able to get a hold of me even if I kept hanging up the phone on him so to speak lol. So I was wanting this relationship with Mary, but it seemed like the only prayer I was healthy enough for was prayer where I basically didn't recieve any comfort or feel like anyone was on the other end of the line at all. And it made the rosary really dry and awful, and I kept hitting walls and not being able to get through it and feeling guilty about it. So I figured Mary probably didn't want me to pray the rosary for that long or that often, at least not yet, and I figured it probably would make her just as happy if I tried to learn about the rosary and learn how to pray it without getting stuck, which is why I picked up that book. But the book was really not good for me because it made me feel like I was hurting Mary's feelings by not praying the rosary well enough. I did learn a lot about the rosary, and it did make me want to pray it, but there were things about it that I had to just push away because they weren't good for my relationship with God, it made me feel exhausted and discouraged and like I had to try harder if I wanted God to love me, which I couldn't, because you can't earn God's love by being good enough, it's a gift, and that was a lie that I was super succeptible at that time

[@bobandkelly]

I kind of feel that way about what people have done with poor St Francis

[@realmadrid97666]

Even the LGBTQ community has tried to co opt St Francis in recent years

[@rylewx]

What, love him?

[@bobandkelly]

@rylewx certainty he is loved and should be! I meant more like he is mischaracterized as a soft cuddly guy, standing around in birdbaths. When he was actually incredibly strong and heroic, undergoing penances for love of Christ and the Church.

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

What sort of man would go out in the wilderness and tame a man eating wolf if not a man of courage.

[@theresafitzgibbon4227]

I don’t think St. Therese was gentle, she was fierce and ambitious and had to practice gentleness.

[@christenh359]

5:42 I love Shane’s perspective about this is what he needs in his life.

[@user-bm5yv3rb2q]

Most beautiful statue of St Therese is in Perth Australia St Marys Cathedral , she was very tall apparently!

[@michelleishappy4036]

for her time, yes she was tall. (5'4")

[@Naomi-bw5qs]

I’ll have to visit. I’m in WA

[@user-bm5yv3rb2q]

Oh do try visit the Benedictines in New Norcia , stay in guesthouse & pray with them. Fr Robert is wonderful pianist. Miraculous Image of Mary Mother of Good Counsel in the Abbey Church , ask about its history. ..pray for us there l​@@Naomi-bw5qs

[@fr.andygutierrez5356]

I so wish the camera would have caught Mother Natalia‘s facial expression when chat GPT called her the abess 😂

[@bacon_cool7100]

And she absolutely will send you flowers from heaven .

[@aaronhulsey3111]

I think it's time for me to give St. Therese another try

[@arose4u2]

Haha she doesn’t let you go

[@Linda-f8q6p]

Years ago I bought Therese's Story of a Soul but couldn't get past the first couple pages. Then one year for Lent I decided to read it as a penance. Except it wasn't. It was a spiritual gift. Oh, and she asked me to send this to you: 🌹

[@aaronhulsey3111]

@@Linda-f8q6p Thank you!

[@jdub3999]

@@aaronhulsey3111 the Catholic Classics podcast has a wonderful narration and commentary on “Story of the Soul”, two wonderful Priests host the podcast.

[@regulator062]

For me it's impossible to dislike St. Thérèse

[@lilianajasminel]

I loved this clip!! Please talk more about great saints 🥹🤍🤍

[@DenisOhAichir]

Reading "Journey of a soul" at the moment i love it, top Saint for sure up there with Saint Faustina.

[@jmctigret]

I love Thérèse of Lisieux. St. Catherine of Siena is my favorite.

[@calebhenderson3817]

For some reason the "little girls", St. Therese, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Gemma Galgani are the 3 big saints that I have heard about and know about, and want to learn more about.

[@IpCrackle]

I don't like it when people coopt the Little Way to downplay the necessity of ascetism and penance. Therese didn't do that.

[@exaltavithumiles]

I came here just to comment that whoever is designing the new Pints thumbnails is doing an amazing job. This one in particular is beautiful. God bless!

[@thomaswest-tv]

Thank you!

[@user-dbdbehcbn]

“Thanks to St. Louis de Montfort, I came to understand that true devotion to the Mother of God is truly Christocentric. Indeed, it is based on the mystery of the Trinity and the mystery of the Incarnation. Montfort’s devotion is imbued with the spirit of the Gospel; it expresses the deep faith of Christians, and it is their authentic love for the Redeemer and His Mother.” - John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, 1994.

[@kimberlykatiti6969]

What do they mean by Therese sent them roses?

[@lesseryellow]

@@kimberlykatiti6969 If people pray to St. Therese for assistance the belief is that you will receive a rose or a flower in some form as proof that your prayer will be answered.

[@Linda-f8q6p]

@@lesseryellow I would say it's more about the prayer being heard but not necessarily answered in the way you think it will be.

[@britaahonen1489]

Just love that look on her face, the problem causing aunty's look on her face she doesn't like someone,

[@sugansugan56]

The reason I like this saint so much Therese is because she makes me believe that I can do small things for Christ and if it is done with the right heart it is important - it doesn’t always have to be doing big things- her respect for her colleagues seemed so genuine even the ones that seem to not appreciate her. I try to be like her at my job (a nurse) when with coworkers and residents. My favorite picture of her is with the fluer de lis dress in chains for Christ.

[@MarieCassidy-zd8sc]

I love St. Martin de Porres

[@asevelel]

What do you mean St Therese gave you the rose on your face? You woke up one day and St Therese was hovering over your face with black gloves and a needle?

[@monicadabney8471]

I know Tattoos are a pagan practice. So that is something a saint would NOT do.

[@chrisperez1685]

@asevelel I'm guessing he tattooed a replica of the real rose he received onto his face.

[@asevelel]

@@chrisperez1685 You know what, I was being goofy but was still confused, and what you just said makes a lot of sense.

[@Frank020]

Lol 😂... according to her book her Mother Superiors disliked her too. Long-suffering.... tolerance of others everyone talks back at the slightest disagreement these days..

[@prettycatlick4373]

Her book makes me feel like a kid for Christ. I need that every now and then.

[@Raymond-d2l7n]

Remember those Muppet Show characters Statler and Waldorf? They'd probably say something like: "Matt Fradd? Matt Fraud more like! Harrumph!" Only joking, Matt! Great channel! 😇

[@daviddabrowski01]

Same mother Natalia, same 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Catholicity-uw2yb]

Never heard of Mother Natalia! Everyone knows St. Therese! She's a Doctor of the Church, which means she is recognized and esteemed as one of the most wise and holy of the saints!

[@momackin1]

The Passion of St Therese changed my life. Most unique perspective of her.

[@SirCoughsalot]

I don't like St Therese much either. I read Story of a Soul after hearing the "simplicity and practicality" of her spiritual life praised over and over. When I read the book, I learned that she never committed a single mortal sin, and her spiritual life seemed to depend so much on that exceptional grace that I didn't find much I could imitate.

[@Linda-f8q6p]

She was spoiled, neurotic, impulsive, and needy. I can totally relate.

[@jdub3999]

@@Linda-f8q6p God Bless you and St Therese pray for us!

[@bacon_cool7100]

You 3 have a very nice flow. This should be done once a month!!!!!

[@alohm]

I loved this. We are going back to Mount Carmel, which is home to the Canadian National Shrine to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

[@BobbyBobBob-d5l]

ST. TERESA OF LISIEUX: “Pick up a pin for the love of God, and count the day well spent.” ST. TERESA OF LISIEUX: “It is not because I have been preserved from serious sin that I lift up my heart to God in trust and love. I am certain that even if I had on my conscience every imaginable sin, I should lose nothing of my confidence, but would throw myself, my heart broken with sorrow, into the arms of my Savior.” ST. TERESE OF LISIEUX: “How great a joy it is to think that God is just; that, in other words, he makes allowances for our weaknesses and understands perfectly the frailty of our humanity.”

[@OxyCleanForYourBrain]

You know what Shayne, if gentleness - a fruit of the holy spirit - is a quality that's a particularly important charism for you to have, then aggression would have been laid on you to help you purify it. Think of all the people in prison, or isolated due to not being able to manage their aggression and have gentleness. The people who do or will suffer isolation because they can't be trusted around vulnerable people ever again due to a complete lack of gentleness and self-control. Those folks need a mentor and patron saint. So, there you go.

[@ThomasReeves-s7u]

I feel dumb, but I don't think I knew a man could take a woman saint as his confirmation name. Still learning things at my age.

[@chaos17945]

@@ThomasReeves-s7u I have come across somewhere on KZbin a priest or friar with Mary in his name. They can

[@ThomasReeves-s7u]

@@chaos17945 Now I have heard of that. And I know in Europe some would give their sons Mary or Marie as a middle name. Maybe I thought that was like an exception?

[@jdub3999]

@@ThomasReeves-s7u Saint Josemaría Escrivá

[@jdub3999]

@@chaos17945 Fr Mark Mary, he’s great and love his most recent book. He’s going to narrate “Rosary in a Year”, starting on the new year. God Bless.

[@MonicaLillis]

We seem to pronounce her name differently in Europe ! 😊

[@PeterJohn-hl3ox]

The problem with converts is that they only ask convert questions

[@britaahonen1489]

But is it like when someone's silent, they possibly could have more capacity, and thinking, and then mistaken for all sorts of things,

[@luisgerardoluevanosmedina433]

Santa Teresa , ORA PRO NOBIS !🙏

[@IpCrackle]

Mr. Natalia and Fr. Gregory Pine would be great to have on at the same time.

[@jdub3999]

@@IpCrackle definitely. So many powerful Religious Sisters that need to be brought on Pints. My parish has Dominican Sisters from Nashville, they are amazing and have deepened the faith of so many! God Bless.

[@T.Truthtella-n3i]

Why am I not surprised Fradd was put-off by one of the greatest Marian saints of all time.

[@cedes017]

Haha St Therese always feels like an annoying little sister, peeking over your shoulder and standing in your peripherals. She is relentless :)

[@mariemaddi]

Don't worry Mother Nathalia.We understand. 😊 You like Sainte Thérèse so much that you want the exclusivity with her.

[@Flying-Roro]

Et les français ils sont là dans les commentaires ??

[@charitybrook6279]

I am glad this video is not at all what i thought it would be based on the thumbnail. Do better!! I know clickbait works but not everyone will take the time to watch at all and they will just see this lovely womans face next to those words and assume negatively about her.

[@bacon_cool7100]

I love this dynamic

[@thereseklopfenstein3398]

Stop reading what others say about her, and start reading what St. Therese says herself. Get past the flowery French writing, and you will find a tough, stubborn, brilliant woman who was determined to find her own path to Heaven, despite the fact everyone around her at the time seemed to believe you had to be a Joan of Arc in order to become a saint! Untold numbers of both men and women have found their path to Jesus by following her "Little Way". Therese was a modern woman and her life and writings apply to our lives today even more than they did in her own time!

[@eamonnmcmanus4785]

Good video

[@Susan-o2f2f]

Her name is Saint Theresa in respect. Please go MHFM regarding the Last Days.

[@1901elina]

Are you confusing St Teresa with St Therese?

[@heinoschaapman1584]

Who is this tattoo guy

[@estebanmoeller]

Therese was a neurotic but thats ok

[@chardeOK]

New to Catholicism, what do yall mean she gave you roses?

[@MarieCassidy-zd8sc]

Why wouldn't you like St, Therese of Liseux

[@CherryDreamer96]

Wha does it mean she gave them roses?

[@jdub3999]

🌹 🌹 🌹

[@hynjus001]

If you pray to St Therese, usually in a novena, you either get a physical rose or a smell of roses quite often. In an unexpected way. Obviously if you're a florist, you won't get a rose. But if you never get roses and then one day there's a red rose on your desk at home with no one else in the house. That kind of thing. The rose is usually coloured to indicate something. For instance,

[@CherryDreamer96]

@@hynjus001 wow! That's really interesting. I have had a smell of roses when I prayed with the Theotokos in the past (before I even knew it was a phenomenon experienced by others) but people finding actual roses is sk sweet 🌹

[@ClayHarris-g4r]

❤❤❤❤❤ Australia ex pat you awesome man of God❤ love from Australia.Clay evangelical....

[@DanielEmmanuel-z6q]

I'm retired at 47. went from Grass to Grace. This video here reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, honest wife, $75K biweekly and a good daughter full of love God bless America🇺🇲❤️

[@Alixander-d6o]

@@DanielEmmanuel-z6q Hello, how do you achieve such biweekly returns? As a single parent i haven't been able to get my own house due to financial struggles, but my faith in God remains strong.

[@GodswillAnderson]

I'm inspired. Please spill some sugar about the biweekly stuff you mentioned

[@DanielEmmanuel-z6q]

Thanks to God, my daughter who introduced me into the digital market. Moreso, thanks to Ms *Kathleen Mary Vella*

[@DanielEmmanuel-z6q]

It is the digital market. That's been the secret to this wealth transfer. A lot of folks in the US amd abroad are getting so much from it, God has been good to my household Thank you Jesus

[@john-n4t]

This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. 🙏 I receive this for my household>>>>>

[@anneliesed]

I'm still waiting for my rose

[@Linda-f8q6p]

🌹

[@novagazer6787]

@@anneliesed 🌹

[@MB-td5wd]

Why don’t ppl like st Therese?

[@brien1513]

For me it's not that I dislike her but that I find her intimidating. Her spirituality is intimidating in the smallest ways but that are huge in everyday life. So I avoid her in a way.

[@MB-td5wd]

@ what ab her spirituality is intimidating? Is every saint intimidating to you or just her

[@JWR-U]

@@MB-td5wdthis is so confusing why don’t people like her or ‘dislike’ her

[@MB-td5wd]

@ why do people not like her

[@isabelrinon]

When I first read Story of a soul I really disliked her. For me it was Hysteria of a soul🤦🏻‍♀️ Now I repent. Years later I read a book by Jacques Phillip about her little way and something in my brain and my heart changed, it was a click, a connection and I could understand what trust in God means. I was kind of a pelagian. I've read all her writings, except poems. I needed that change to really understand her. Now is one of my favourite saints. I dislike some saints because the biographies show them perfect during all their lifes. That's why I prefer to read what they have written than what others have written about them.

[@rock_and-or_roll]

1:33 ME TOO SO MUCH

[@user-cl6uj5bn2f]

It's SAINT THERESE to you

[@Molly-cd9fx]

I done a novena to her I never got roses , not sure what that means

[@monicadabney8471]

Remember, her roses can even come as a person named Rose. Or picture of a roses that you normally would not have recieved or seen. And yes a rose too. Do it again and with humility.

[@Molly-cd9fx]

Thank you ​@@monicadabney8471

[@jdub3999]

@@Molly-cd9fx 🌹

[@lilyw72]

I resent her because I ask for roses s d never get them and everyone else does.

[@diegoandres2906]

Jesus is The Way and Thérèse is the Little Way

[@jmm91910]

I just lost my time listening to this I didn’t get anything from it but who cares Fradd doesn’t care about our comments :/

[@heinoschaapman1584]

Be careful!?

[@IdiotaDaniel]

Misleading clickbait

[@kristianhaikala8330]

I love Catholic clickbait

[@user-ep8xo1od9o]

I have never recieved roses from her :( i know it doesnt mean anything tho

[@jessefoutz597]

St. Therese in 99.999% of the things I've seen about her portray her as a Victorian novella come to life, complete with early death from consumption. Even the things she wrote herself, I hear in Snow White's voice. It turns my stomach.

[@jdub3999]

@@jessefoutz597 God Bless You!

[@Darth_Vader258]

"I AM your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ✝️ The Son of Man Amen Amen Truly Truly I AM telling you the Truth. While I AM the complete description of Love 💖 I AM also capable of Hatred, because I HATE Sin and ALL Unrighteousness. While I LOVE 💕 the Sinners I HATE the Sin, I have LOVED with an Eternal Love 💕 even the WORST of Sinners but I HATE their Sin. I AM your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ✝️ The Son of Man Amen Amen Truly Truly I AM telling you the Truth." I'm a cradle Catholic and I have NEVER been the Lord Jesus Christ ✝️ I am just the Lord's messenger.

[@afranka87]

My priest told me she is too sentimental and I was like: But, she is a saint 😭😂

[@CalaverasRC]

My first rose I got from her is the one on my face..? I’m sorry just always turned off by this guy.

[@rylewx]

lol thank you. He’s very into himself.

[@alisterrebelo9013]

I see a broken man who has repented and is trying to become a disciple of Christ. Are you distracted by his exterior and fail to discern his interior?

[@CalaverasRC]

@@alisterrebelo9013 I’m not a fan of his content at all. To each their own. Love pints. Always skip his videos. Was interested in what Mother Natalia had to say and then it cuts to this guy saying St. Therese gave him a face tattoo.

[@alisterrebelo9013]

@@CalaverasRC If you met him in person, would you give him a hug?

[@CalaverasRC]

@@alisterrebelo9013 sure lol I go to NA meetings twice a week and our meeting is big on hugging lol

[@Scarvaldi]

What is that monstrous creature?

[@fitzhamilton]

Roses. Lace doilies. Theatric photos of Therese histrionically playing Joan of Arc, then sitting like a little tubercular owl peering out from beneath dozens of layers of habit and bedsheets dying on her convent’s veranda.. Her nepotistic relationship with her birth sisters in the convent, their collective abandonment of their father to madness in the asylum.. She’s somehow awesome, yet just a bit too much, overly dramatic, the star of her (their) own production, verging on a drama queen. That day at World Youth Day on the racetrack in Paris in 1997 when they proclaimed her doctor of the Church, when they enfolded her cult into Saint (ahem.. ) John Paul II’s cult of personality.. That day was pivotal for me, a day when I began to question so many things.. The obscene rock star like adulation we, the crowd showered JP II with, followed by what struck me as sloppy mass sacrilegious “pastoral” desecration of the eucharist so typical of the Novus Ordo during communion there .. All of that disturbed me.. JP II is spiritually and theologically dodgy in too many subtle ways, far too dramatic photogenic and emotionally tempting, while his immediate fruits have been profoundly ambiguous, even putrid. I can’t say how I feel about Therese. I just keep her at a distance, because I don’t trust Modern piety and spiritual sensibilities. There’s a lot of putrefaction in Rome. Anything or anyone they promote these past 100 years is suspect in my sensibility. The less sentimentality I have affecting me, the better, and Therese’s cult is saccharine and sentimental unto near absurdity.

[@sheilaoneil18]

This is dreadful!

[@Rmezzi2]

Yes, the nuns didn't like her, I'm not surprised mother Natalia doesn't like her. So interesting....I wonder if it's envy ...I understand not loving all the saints but to say you don't dislike one like that's a good thing...saints are Christian, shouldn't we see Christ in them?

[@LindaBrown-h7o]

The Most beautiful Of all times my lifetime..First Lady Melanie Trump

[@monicadabney8471]

Yes a woman who promotes the murder of the unborn and biologically confused.

[@philipserio5631]

Click Bait.

[@lorettat.8413]

The thumbnail title is "Why Mother Natalia Dislikes St. Therese of Lisieux". Then when you click it, the title changes to "Why Mother Natalia Disliked St. Therese of Lisieux" Big difference. Yes, dishonest click bait. For that reason alone, I chose not to watch it. Update: It appears they have fixed the thumbnail.

[@thomaswest-tv]

@@lorettat.8413 wow, how did they do that??

[@thepanda7448]

yes, at 00:30 she says "I don't dislike...".....a double negative

[@monicadabney8471]

Sorry but tattoo guy needs to erase all the pagan tattoos on his body. Yessss, tattoos are pagan. And St. Therese came into my life 2017 and it has never been the same.

[@jdub3999]

@@monicadabney8471 Let’s pray his heart is devoted to God! Sometimes my appearance looks Godly but my heart is full of sin. God Bless you.

[@justinhartnell6779]

Oh jeeez... This is unbearable.

[@HERESYDEFLECTOR]

Tattoos are sins

[@jdub3999]

@@HERESYDEFLECTOR God Bless you.

[@HERESYDEFLECTOR]

This show is full of heretics

[@laudashra]

please go outside and enjoy the sun

[@jdub3999]

@@HERESYDEFLECTOR God Bless you.